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When all the first floor beams and steel columns have been hoisted into position, observers will be able to try their skill with the surveyors who plumb up the beams before they are finally bolted into position...
...irate woman then tackled Boss Marc on his pro-Russian voting record in the House-a thrust that brought a new round of boos. By the time Marcantonio closed his remarks with a ringing "My opponent, Bryan, can go plumb, straight to hell!" he was glaring and disheveled, and voters were taking off their coats in defiance of police...
Another modernizing job was near completion. Architect Winslow had found the two big sandstone pillars of the northwest Pennsylvania entrance to the White House grounds out of plumb. One had slipped two inches off the vertical. Wind and vibration from Pennsylvania Avenue's trolleys had tilted the other about three-quarters of an inch. The pillars dated back to the restoration of the White House after the British burned it in 1814, but they would not become relics; Winslow's workmen got them back in plumb after weeks of work...
...biography. Novelist Fast knows facts when he sees them, treats them respectfully, arrays most of those relating to Altgeld's career in good order. But he adds dabs of "color," invents dialogue ("Dear . . . do you want eggs or hot cakes?" "I want hot cakes"), even pretends to plumb Altgeld's mind and explain his motives. Harry Barnard's biography, Eagle Forgotten (1938), remains by far the best and fullest account of Altgeld's life. The American contributes "interpretive" moments and prose passages that sound like Upton Sinclair...
While he waited for October and the U.S. Supreme Court to decide whether he would have to face death twice, stolid, stuttering Willie Francis gave the world the sum of his experience. It was "plumb mizzuble...